Sparklines in OBIEE

Dear All,
Can anyone is aware or know whether Sparklines are supported in OBIEE Interactive dashboards and also let me know whether it can be implemented by any customizations?
If anyone has done such customizations, please share the steps and any Pseudo code or link (if any)
This is very critical and requires a reply for the same.
Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately OBIEE does not directly support sparklines. There are couple of small things that you can do.
You can simple download the report to Excel and use the sparkline template add in in excel to build the same.
There are some custom images that we can make use of them in conditional formatting tab of columns in OBIEE. We can import sparkline images and specify the condition there.
Hope it helps
Prash

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Hi RMN,
I've wanted to blog in the past, but I've got a pesky contract that says anything I blog about is my company's property (which doesn't sit too well with me). So I opted to help people in the public forum instead, that way others can read it and pass it around. So feel free to re-post this anywhere you want to.
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if (debug === 1) { document.write("Begining to get addSparkline function " + "<BR>");}
if (debug === 1) { document.write("Setting up reg_exp variables" + "<BR>");}
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if (debug === 1) { document.write("Get array of embeds" + embeds.length + "<BR>");}
for ( var embed = 0; embed <embeds.length; embed++)
     if (debug === 1) { document.write("Looping over Embeds: " + embed + "<BR>");}
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     var endIdx;
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     var chart_url = "saw.dll?Go&Action=Navigate&path=/users/administrator/Java%20Script%20Test/Sparkline%20Detail&col1=Scorecard.Plant&val1=" + values\[embed\];
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Best regards,
-Joe
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